Because of the necessity of resolver for detecting a rotating position,
which is very expensive, and noise suppression of the rotating position
signal line on a doubly-fed machine, cost increase of the generator and
reduced reliability due to possible failures are inevitable. In order to
solve such problem, a generation system in the present invention is
equipped with an exciter that estimates the slip frequency of the
doubly-fed machine from each primary current I.sub.1 and voltage V.sub.1
and secondary current I.sub.2 and voltage V.sub.2 of the doubly-fed
machine and excites the secondary of the doubly-fed machine at the
estimated slip frequency.